Kottke.org is a website. It is not an app. It is not a product. It is simply a static website, updated daily, running some rickety old blogging software. As of March of 2018 it’s been consistently updated for twenty years. It is largely the product of a single mind: Jason Kottke. Kottke.org has shaped the way many of us have thought about news, blogging, and linking. On Margins talks with Jason about his two decades of blogging, influences in his life that shaped how he works today, and what kottke.org would look like were it a book. Show Links:

Peter Thiel donated $1.25 million the the fascist Replication Presidential Candidate, and his Silicon Valley cohort are rushing to defend his right to his political "opinions." What does it mean? We dive in. At 3:20, my review of a Soylent Food Bar.

Dave is joined by writer and podcaster Liz Myles and together they discuss reality TV, pop culture tastes outside of their favorite genre, Doctor Who, and small things that can shatter suspension of disbelief in film and television.

You can hear more from Liz on Verity! and Down and Safe. Her book on The Ambassadors of Death is available from The Black Archive. You can follow her on Twitter and read more about her thoughts and work on her website.

Serenity Caldwell returns to the show. Topics include the new 9.7-inch iPad Pro, using an iPad for “work”, podcasting microphones, the damn Siri Remote for the new Apple TV, the Star Wars: Rogue One teaser, and more.

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